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How New Managers Can Address Underperformance Without Writing Them Off
In this episode of New Manager Conversations, Lucas and Luna tackle one of the hardest first-year challenges: addressing a direct report's underperformance when you inherited a struggling team member. Instead of jumping to performance improvement plans, they explore a three-step diagnostic framework that separates skill gaps from motivation gaps from environment gaps. Using a concrete example of a junior analyst named Priya, they break down how a new manager named Sam uncovered that Priya's poor output wasn't about laziness but about unclear priorities and a broken reporting…
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